Queen City Times. (Agra, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 4, 1910 Page: 2 of 8
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Queen City Times
AGRA.
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA HAPPENINGS
Work will commence soon on a cot
ton oil mill in Oklahoma City to cost
1150,000.
A petition asking for the commis
sion form of government has been tiled
with Mayor Edwards at Chickasha.
People are holding on to their real
estate in and around Custer City. Oil
has been struck there at a depth of
810 feet.
The census oflice recently announced
populations as follows: Bryan county,
Oklahoma, 29,852; Durant., 5,330; Wau-
■dka, Jeffersou county, 8,928.
As Told in a
Few Words
WASHINGTON.
By operation of law Rear Admiral
Peaches twelve inches in circum-
ference and weighing thirteen ounces
each were raised on the Clarence tur-
ner place, near Muskogee.
At a special meeting of the county
commissioners of Creek county, con-
tracts were let for 26 bridges to be
built within the next ninety days.
John A. Rogers has been placed on
the retired list of the navy on ac-
count of age.
Sixteen firms manufacturing enam-
eled ware, with offices in nine states,
were made defendants by a bill in
equity filed against them in Baltimore
by the department of justice. The ac-
tion was brought under the Sherman
anti-trust law.
To the failure of a safety mechanism
to operate when a sudden and power-
ful pull was given by an artilleryman
in attaching the lanyard, is now laid
the responsibility for the accident
which cost the lives of eleven men at
Hinton has a farmers’ union gin
that is so prosperous it has taken
out all its old machinery and re-
placed it with new and better.
The first arrest in .what is said to
have been a systematic robbing of the
mails at Tahlequah was made when
Jim Fields was taken into custody.
Seventeen out of the thirty-eight
candidates were successful in passing
the recent examinations in Oklahoma
for certiticates as registered pharma-
cists.
Two fat beeves and a fine thorough-
bred Poland China hog were a part
of the big feast at the eleventh an-
nual reunion of the Todd and Spauld-
ing families, held on the A1 'iodd
ranch, near Muskogee.
George A. Bradley, head of the Brad-
ley implement house, Muskogee, had
a hemorrhage while seining for fish
in the Arkansas river. He dropped
the seine, cried for help and died
after being taken out of the water.
Fortress Monroe, Va.
For the purpose of determining such
Indians on the Quapaw agency in Okla-
homa, as are capable of assuming the
responsibility of managing their per-
sonal affairs, tho interior department
has appointed a competency commis-
sion to examine all the tribes on the
reservation with the exception of the
Modocs
The Kansas railroad commissioners
through Attorney General Jackson
have filed a complain with the inter-
state commission pt Washington
against the Pullman company, the
Santa Fe, Rock Island, Frisco, Burling-
ton, Union Pacific and Kansas City-
Southern for unreasonable sleeping
berth charges.
Crossing diplomatic swords with
Norway, tho state department at
Washington, D. C„ replying to pro-
tests from New Orleans commercial in-
terests against Norwegian recognition
of Blueflelds, Nicaragua, blockade, de-
clares Blueflelds an open port. Nor-
way, it is said, was misinformed of
conditions there.
Governor C. N. Haskell has granted
a sixty-day parole to S. F. Sanders
of Comanche county, in order that he
may have an operation performed for
appendicitis, and to visit his family,
consisting of a wife and ten chil-
dren.
Louis Abernathy and his brother,
Temple—the Abernathy kids—arrived
in Oklahoma City Friday last in their
automobile, completing their long ride
from New York City, whither they
rode horseback and greeted Col.
Roosevelt.
Sapulpa is making a hard fight to
secure a recount of the federal cen-
sus. A sensation was sprung when
it was discovered that a colony of
nearly five hundred people, residing
in the oil fields near there, had been
overlooked by the enumerators.
Thero is a movement on foot be-
tween Oklahoma City, Muskogee and
Tulsa bankers to bring the principal
banking heads of New York C ity to
Oklahoma in order that they might
become better acquainted with the
most widely advertised state in the
nation.
Walter Hodgins of Grand Junction,
Miss Leona Adams of San Francisco
and Miss Gladys Carlyle of Chicago
were instantly killed near Grand Junc-
tion, Colo., when a train ran into
their automobile. C. H. Carmen of
Grand Junction and Thomas Rock,
chauffeur, were seriously injured.
DOMESTIC
The Tresurel Maru, plying between
Kobe and Dairen, sunk off Chindo,
Korea. The steamer had 246 passen-
gers aboard, of whom only 40 were
saved.
The first suit for breach of promise
of marriage ever tried in Belton, 1 ex.,
ended with a verdict for $4,000 and
costs of suit for Miss Mary E. Car-
penter, Syracuse, N. Y.
Grain elevator men of Amarillo,
Tex., calculate that farmers of the
Panhandle will «lear this year $5,000,-
000 out of the small grain crop. This
is by far the best showing ever mado
in the Panhandle.
The colored teachers in their na-
tional association meeting at Okla-
homa City, Okla., elected officers for
the ensuing year, and selected St.
Louis as the place for the next con-
vention.
A masked highwayman shot and
killed Morton Craig, near Kittanlng,
Pa., after being repulsed In an attempt
to lake $2,800 carried by Craig’s two
companions.
The strike of 12,000 employes on the
Northeastern railroad in England is
settled. The men accepted the terms
offered by the company and have re-
turned to work.
Theodore Roosevelt will be in Kan-
sas City, September 1, from noon un-
til midnight. Mr. Roosevelt will go
here from Osawatomie, Kans., where
he is to speak August 29.
B. V. Barger, of Memphis, Tenn., was
shot and fatally injured at Little Rock,
Ark., by C. M. Gaynon, who in turn
killed Barger. Mrs. Gaynon declares
Barger was attempting to crawl
through a window of her home when
her husband fired.
Two thousand troops of the National
Guard, among them the crack troop
A of Cleveland and Eattery C of Co-
lumbus, Ohio, have gone to guard prop-
erty in the street car strike at Colum-
bus.
Women were shot down, men ridden
over and children trampled under foot
in a bloody pitched battle between
the police and the strikers about the
Williamsburg plant of the sugar trust
in New York. One man was killed,
many were fatally stabbed and beaten,
and 35 others, among them a number
of women, so seriously hurt that some
of them may die.
The most widespread epidemic of
ptomaine poisoning in the history of
Joplin, Mo., is attributed by physi-
cians to atmospheric conditions al-
most without precedent in that local-
ity. Seventy-five cases of serious pto-
maine poisoning have been reported.
M. J. Coghlan, superintendent of a
hospital at Woodward, Okla., died at
the home of his father-in-law in Canis-
tee, N. Y., as the result of an over-
dose of chloral. Coughlan s wife died
several weeks ago and since then
Coghlan has been despondent
Five masked and armed men held
up a passenger train on the New York,
Ontario & Western railroad near
Weehauken, N. Y. Four of the rob-
bers invaded the train and forced a
number of persons to give up their
valuables at the pistol point.
Eight hundred miners at the Amer-
ican Lead, Zinc & Smelting company’s
mines at Webb City, Mo., who went
out on a strike because a reduction
of ten per Cent was made in their
wages, acepted the reduction and have
returned to work.
Strikers attempted to derail a Grand
Trunk passenger train near South
Bend, Ind. The engineer of the train
noticed the turned switch signal in
time to stop his train and therby prob-
ably prevented injury, if not loss of
life to the passengers.
To .prevent the foreclosure of a
mortgage on his home, W. H. Israel,
of Lewis, Kas., shot himself at a room-
ing house. His son, Edward Israel,
and Thomas Haun, an attorney from
Kinsley arrived at the hospital as he
was dying. They had been searching
for him for a week and feared that he
intended to end his life.
In a riot at South Bend, Ind., among
striking trainmen on the Grand Trunk
railroad, I. Freel was shot and seri-
ously wounded by John Peck, of Battle
Creek, Mich., an employe of a private
detective agency assisting the rail-
road.
Verdicts of not guilty were render-
ed Friday in the cases of twelve Cairo,
111., citizens charged in indictments
with having been leaders of the mob
which stormed the Alexander county
jail and lynched the negro, John Pratt,
on the night of February 15 last. The
jury was out two hours.
At Guthrie, Okla., Wednesday, the
supreme court awarded Governor Has-
kell a writ of prohibition against the
injunction brought by Logan county
in the capital removal case. Accord-
ing to the ruling of the court the state
executive has a right to move his of-
fice, but other state officers have not.
The decision makes no direction as to
the officers who were already located
in Oklahoma City.
Henry P. Cole, a prosperous farmer,
living near Humboldt, Tenn., promises
to rival the great Burbank in marvel-
ous feats of plant raising. His latest
innovation is a combination tomato
and pepper plant, which will enable the
lover of the delicious fruit to abandon
STATE SHOWS
BIG INCREASE
OKLAHOMA’S POPULATION NEAR
TWO MILLION MARK
GAIN OF 16.8 PER CENT
Most Remarkable Gain Made By Any
State in Union—Three Enumera-
tion Districts Yet to Be
Counted
tho antiquated method of using pep-
per, it being only necessary to slice
the new product and it is ready for
use.
FOREIGN
Edward H. Harriman was worth
$71,000,000 at the time of his death, ac-
cording to reports from New York.
Russia is putting forth strenuous ef-
forts to get abreast of France and
Germany in the field of aeronautics.
Funds are being collected, air idiots
trained, and aeroplanes constructed.
Washington, D. C—The total popu-
lation of the state of Oklahoma, lack-
ing three enumeration districts yet to
be counted, has been announced by
the census bureau and is shown to be
1.651.951. This is the most remark-
able gain made by any state in the
Union. Oklahoma City’s gain has
been greater than that of any other
city in the United States. The three
enumeration districts yet to be count-
ed may give the state a population
of approximately two millions, it is
thought. Oklahoma is the second
state to be completed by the census
department. The totals will be given
out in a few days.
The population of Oklahoma is 1,-
651.951, as compared with 1,414,177,
according to the special census of
1907, showing an increase since 1907
of 16.8 per cent.
The figures show the total negro
population of the state to be 138,456,
as compared with 112,160 in 1907. In
1907 the negro population constituted
7.9 per cent of the total, and per-
centage for 1910 is 8.4 per cent. The
three distircts lacking in the figures,
the census director announced, would
affect the total population by less
than 5,000.
The population of the territory now
recognized as the stake of Oklahoma,
was according to the census of 1900,
790,391, the population of 1910, repre-
senting an increase of 109 per cent.
Every county in the state with seven
exceptions, increased in population
between 1907 and 1910, many of them
showing an increase of more than 10
per cent in that time.
In 32 of the counties in the state,
the negro population is more than 1,-
000. The heaviest negro population
is In Muskogee county, the enumera-
tion showing 16,534. Oklahoma coun-
ty has 9,370 negroes, Wagoner county
8,745; Logan county 8,259 and Ok-
fuskee county 8,091.
Under this computation, Oklahoma
will be entitled certainly to one more
congressman and probably two more
representatives in congress, the exact
number depending entirely upon the
basis of apportionment. At present
there are five members of the house
from Oklahoma, but this number was
arbitrarily fixed when Oklahoma en-
tered the Union, and if the basis of
the apportionment for the country at
large under the census of 1910 had
been observed, the new state would
have been entitled to seven members
to the lower branch of congress when
it entered the Union.
With an increase of about one-sixth
in population, it Is scarcely to be sup-
posed there will be any reduction by
congress of the number of congress-
men to which the state was right-
fully entitled under the special census
of Oklahoma in 1907. The districts
now are unusually large, varying in
population from 225,000 in the first, to
315,000 in the second. It ^s not to be
expected that the basis of representa-
tion will be increased to more than
220,000, and In that event the state
would be given seven members and
still have a fraction of population left.
Attends Funeral: Dies of Sunstroke
Holden, Mo.—Charles Rluhem, while
attending the funeral of his old friend,
M. Brown, received a sunstroke at
the grave and died an hour later.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Queen City Times. (Agra, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 4, 1910, newspaper, August 4, 1910; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc911384/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.